Little Gidding by TS Eliot

1. Little Gidding
an ending?
or a beginning?
T.S. Elliot

2. We shall not cease from exploration

3. And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started

4. And know the place for the first time.

5. Through
the unknown,
unremembered
gate

6. When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;

7. At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall

8. And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for

9. But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.

10. Quick now, here, now, always—
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)

11. And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well

12. When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire

13. And the fire and the rose
are one.